17 June 2008
Welcome to Northern Rivers Hemp
Posted by northcoasthemp under: News .
Today saw the inaugural meeting of a preliminary Northern NSW Hemp Association. Click Here for minutes and notes from this meeting.
Recent State legislation is forming the legal framework for the formation of an Industrial Hemp industry. This state legislation comes after other states. Notably Queensland and WA – which both now have emerging industries.
My role is to help establish a sustainable regional industry in the North Coast of NSW. I will do this by leveraging the internet and it’s vast ability to network.
There is a current need to connect people – this is the forming stage of group development.
This website hopes to assist in the forming of these initial connections by providing a central hub.
I hope to document the process so it can serve as a model for a pattern of emerging bioregional industries ( specifically primary food, fibre and fuel). This project is designed to fit the criteria for some of the modules of the Accreted Diploma Program for Permaculture.
It is important to note that the “North Coast Hemp Cooperative” is an interim name for the proposed organisation, and it is not a legal entity as such. Thus a priority of the first meeting was to identify potential structures that may be suitable. The outcome of this was unanimous agreement to begin the process to form an Incorporated Association.
3 Comments so far...
Max Stone Says:
7 August 2008 at 1:47 am.
webgreetings,
looking forward to being able to purchase genuine N.S.W hemp seed, please keep me as up to date with developments as possible.
till next
peace
Max Stone
Klara Marosszeky Says:
4 November 2008 at 12:07 pm.
Hi Max,
We’ll be bringing hemp seed into the region very shortly now and the first crops should be in the ground by late November/early December. The licence applications will be announced in the next few days.
Klara
Ricardo Johansson Says:
7 May 2010 at 3:43 am.
I’m inspired by your work and never-ending commitment to this project.
Why, specifically, does the NSW government disallow anyone from using industrial hemp in food production? I’d really like to know.
And, although it appears to be quite nice for the corporate state administration to create statutes that everyone appears to have been brainwashed to think are required in order to allow the poor pathetic average everyday man or woman the “privilege”, for a price, to perform limited growing of industrial hemp (Praises be to Them), why is there such a low tolerance of THC content: .5% in such growing? I’m not an expert, but that may be less that what’s in the air we breath here in the Byron Shire.
Unless all of these ridiculous roadblocks can be removed, I don’t see much hope for progress.
Does anyone else see the need to shift from a de facto corporate tyrannical government that benefits only corporations to a de jur government that is truly of, by, to, for and from the People that benefits all the People equally?